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14th June 2007

Download of the day: Supercharge file copying with Total Copy

A handy shell extension, that allows you to pause and resume file copies under Windows.

Total Copy is a improved version of Windows' copy-function.It allows you to pause and resume file copies under Windows. It integrates into the right click menu and becomes available whenever you drag files or folders to copy them. You can adjust the copy speed, pause and resume at any point of time.

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Special features include :

- Pause / Resuming : At any time you may pause the copy-prosess, and continue later. This is an awesome feature..

- Faster than Windows : Copies slightly faster than Windows (approx. 10% localy, and 1% on network)

- Resuming on powerfailure-If the computer is turned off during the copyprosess (ex. power-loss or system-crash), Total Copy let's you resume when you restart.

How to Use :

When you normally copy something in Windows, you drag the files from one folder to another usingtotal_copy_menu.gif your left mousebutton. If you drag the files using the right mousebutton, you will get a menu like the one to the right. 
Now, select "Total Copy here" instead of Window's "Copy here".

Its highly light and super fast. One of the best copying softwares we have ever used.

Lastest official version 1.10 : Download Now tcopy.exe (252 KB) Mirror  [ Total Copy ]

9th June 2007

Movable Type becomes Free and Open Source

Six Apart announced the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blogmt4-logo-black.gif platform that has two distinct user bases - consumer base and Enterprise. Movable Type Open Source, or MTOS, is the open source project that will consist of a GPL-licensed version of Movable Type 4.0, to be released in Q3 2007, and resources for the already large community of Movable Type developers.

Its already late but never too late..to stay in the competition of these blogging platforms, they had to open source it..anyway..better late than never …

The MTOS distribution will be available for download / checkout later this summer at www.movabletype.org

To learn more about the open source project, visit its website http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/.

7th June 2007

Arrange items in Firefox Right Click Menu using Menu Editor

Rearrange or remove menuitems from the main context menu (right-click menu) and main menubar (File Edit View etc.). So when you install a fresh Firefox installation or add lots of addons or extensions like we do, then the right click on Firefox is in a mess. So to arrange the items in this right click menu, use Menu Editor.

This will help you re-arrange all the items in the right click menu. This is the perfect add-on for slimming down menus, especially when you start to get loads of add-ons. Its a must have for people who have lots of extensions. Like we have Google Toolbar, Clipmarks, Scrapbook,BlueOrganizer, Internet Download Manager addon..

It should be in the Recommended Add-Ons list on Mozilla Extensions site.

Screenshots :

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[ Menu Editor ] [ Recommended Firefox Addons ]

17th May 2007

YouTube Video Search v1.0

YouTube-Video Search is a tool that will give you easy access to YouTube.

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Features:
* Searching videos on YouTube
* Results (up to 100) with information about name, length, rating.
* Download videos on YouTube directly to your hard disk.
* Thumbnail viewing.

[ Download ] (rs link)

9th May 2007

Download of the day: Access eBay with the eBay Toolbar

The eBay Toolbar lets you search eBay, access your account and more, all from within Firefox. Currently, eBay's own browser toolbar is an Internet Explorer-only product. grow up ebay !!

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You can do everything which is possible on present ebay's toolbar - Search eBay from anywhere, Access your account easily, Get to ending auctions quickly, See image previews for all search results. Compatible with linux,mac,windows. we can say that this works wherever Firefox works !!

My eBay Fox rocks ..njoy !!

[ My eBay Fox ] [ Download Plugin ]

8th May 2007

Search all Torrents Sites at one Place

TorrentPond as the name goes is a pond for all torrent sites. You can search torrents from severaltorrent_pond.gif sites such as TorrentSpy,ShareTV,BT Junkie,FullDls,MegaNova,MiniNova,BushTorrents,IsoHunt,The Pirate Bay,Demonoid,myBittorrent,Torrent Box,BiteNova,New Torrents & Torrent Valley.

Its really a good place . Its better than going to each site and searching for the torrents..( but it dosen't work properly with sites which have compulsory registration and login, like demonoid.)

Happy Torrrenting ! 

[ TorrentPond

23rd April 2007

Download of the day : PageAddict (Add-on for Firefox)

PageAddict is a Firefox extension that will help you monitor your Internet addiction. Once you install it, choose PageAddict from the Tools menu to display a summary of the time you've wasted on each web site for this day, and a graph of your web…

 

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Its really cool, you will actually know what to do and what not too.. i mean if you are spending more time on something very less useful , you will know your stats ! It might help you make yourself better. This could be very useful to monitor children's browsing habits and what steps to take to put them on to track !

I really love you pageaddict Smile

Become Better with pageaddict ! njoy

[ Download add-on / Alternate Link ] [ Firefox Add-ons ] [ pageaddict

17th April 2007

Download of the Day: Shoka (All platforms)

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Free, open source application Shoka is a PDF library manager withshoka.jpg a difference.

Shoka has been designed to perform full text searches on all documents in your Shoka library and share documents over LAN, it comes with a simple and attractive graphical interface.

Shoka has some nice features like tagging and smartlists. There is something wrong with the windows version of Shoka. I am not able to use it properly. Tools like Google Desktop already do similar thing of indexing but for exclusive managing of pdf's Shoka is great.

Note : It needs JavaWebStart.  

[ Shoka ] [ Download ] [ Java ]

16th April 2007

Download New Free Windows Vista Icons-Give Refreshing Look To Your Desktop

Give a refreshing look to your desktop. Download the new set of icons from VistaIcons.com. They provide high quality icons in the PNG and ICO formats. Icons have a maximum size of 256 x 256 pixels, making them suitable for high-DPI displays.

Some of the packages :

VISTA STYLE ICONS ( Download )

 

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ALPHA VISTA PACK ( Download )

 

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IVISTA ICON PACK ( Download )

 

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AEROVISTA ( Download )

 

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VISTAICO AERO PACK ( Download )

 

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 via [ VistaIcons ]
16th April 2007

Video Accelerator for YouTube

You must be fed up sometimes of slow loading of Youtube videos, here is a tool which canspeedbit.jpg accelerate the loading of videos to your pc . The streaming becomes much faster.This software will make your YouTube videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering time and video interruptions.

SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube makes your videos stream faster and play smoother, reducing buffering problems and video "hiccups". The unique video search lets you find the latest and hottest videos around the web, and the "Recently Accelerated" list gives you instant access to the last videos played.SpeedBit Video Accelerator is a product from the creators of Download Accelerator Plus (DAP).

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Click here for more info.

 

 

 

 

System Requirements: 

OS: Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP
Browser: FireFox 1.5, FireFox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7

Note : This does not support vista, although it does work fine on XP.

You can check out how Speedbit works and you can download it here. This is a must if you are on a dial up and still want to enjoy watching some wonderful YouTube videos.

via [ speedbit